Within 20 years or so, many people may look back and wonder what it was like to drive a car – to actually control the vehicle manually with feet on the pedals and hands on the steering wheel.

Self-driving cars, or SDCs, that include a degree of driver control are expected to enter markets around the world by 2025 with purely autonomous cars following around 2030, according to ,“Emerging Technologies: Autonomous Cars—Not If, But When,” a study from industry research company IHS Automotive.

IHS expects global sales of self-driving cars to grow from about 230,000 in 2025 to 11.8 million 2035. The company predicts the 2035 sales total will include about 7 million cars with both autonomous and driver control and 4.8 million with autonomous control only. Read More »

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